Qumar Zaman is my new hero.

The Lake County Fielders play-by-play announcer quit on air because the front office owed him money.

This is the same Lake County Fielders that had their manager quit via email because he wasn’t getting paid.

Rich Ehrenreich is the majority owner and actor Kevin Costner owns a small portion of the minor league baseball team that’s based in Zion, Ill.

Rule #1 in life is you don’t mess with people’s money.

[H/T Awful Announcing]

Kansas City Star blogger Lee Judge took infielder Wilson Betemit to task last month for failing to get hit by a 81-mph slider with the bases loaded in a tie game.

Instead of just mouthing off about Betemit not getting hit by the pitch, Judge decided to step in the box to see what an 81-mph slider feels like.

Lee, you’re awesome.